Thank you,
Now I have to review the orphaned pkg's.
On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 18:25 +0100, Frédéric Pierret wrote:
Le 2/9/21 à 4:35 PM, Stephen Snow a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I would like to start helping with maintaining a/some package(s). I
> have read the pre-requisite documents, did the RPM creation
> tutorial,
> and signed up to all the mailing lists.
> I am currently self employed providing industrial control services
> to
> some businesses in my area, which is the South Bruce Peninsula in
> Ontario Canada. I live in between Lake Huron to the west and
> Georgian
> Bay to the east. It is currently very cold here -10C, but not like
> out
> West (-49C in Saskatchewan).
> I am somewhat active in the Fedora community, most recently I am an
> editor and writer for Fedora Magazine. I am also a moderator on
> discussion.fp.o, where I try to help out when I can and generally
> enjoy
> the community interraction that is to be had there. I have also
> helped
> Silverblue project a bit with documentation in the past, and am an
> avid
> promoter of it as a very stable workstation alternative.
> In my day job, which I have been doing in one form or another since
> 1986, I have had to program or debug programs on a diverse range of
> control systems. As a result, I have been exposed to, and in many
> cases
> had to learn a number of different languages. The most relevant of
> which would be C/C++ and Java. In industrial settings it is
> commonly
> the standard C lib used, but periphery equipment such as thermal
> printers often would accept java code as well as basic if you were
> so
> inclined. In any case, there were also various Unix, Qnx, and
> eventually some Linux based control systems in use on the plant
> floors
> I visited.
> I would like to put my programming skills to use in the project
> where I
> can, perhaps staring with an orphaned package(s) since I have built
> RPM's and flatpaks too for that matter even before doing the
> tutorial.
> Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I look forward to
> helping out.
>
> Regards,
> Stephen Snow
Hi Stephen,
Welcome and enjoy to be around here on devel and packaging stuff :)
Best,
Frédéric